1915] Fernald and Wiegand,— Genus Euphrasia 193 
in part not E. latifolia L. (1753). E. officinalis, B. latifolia Lange, 
Overs. ov. Grónl. Flora, 79 (1880), as to plant. E. officinalis, B 
tatarica Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 552 (1846), in part, not E. tatarica 
Fischer (1825). E. officinalis, y alpestris b. arctica Herder, Bull. 
Soc. imp. nat. Mose. 1884, pars. 3, 46. E. officinalis, var. hyperborea 
Favr. acc. to Wettstein, l. c. (1896). Æ. hirtella Robinson, RHODORA, 
iii. 275 (1901), in large part, not Jordan.— Plant 5-25 cm. high, 
slender: stem pubescent: branches few, rarely many, from the 
middle of the stem or below, usually strongly ascending; internodes 
mostly 8-15 mm. long: leaves 5-15 mm. long, mostly rather small, 
from copiously to sparingly pubescent: inflorescence dense, unin- 
terrupted above (except in “drawn” plants), the mature primary 
spikes 3-15 em. long: bracts 7-20 pairs, usually rather small, ascend- 
ing and often imbricated, the lowest in maturity 0.5-2 em. apart; 
teeth acute: corolla white with pale lavender lines and often darker 
upper lip, 5-7 mm. long, exceeding the bracts; lobes of the lower 
lip nearly parallel.— In dry or rarely damp, often calcareous, soils, 
mountains of northern Europe, Iceland and Greenland, south to 
Newfoundland, eastern Quebec, Michigan and Minnesota. LABRA- 
DOR: Kangalaksiorvik Bay, September 1-10, 1908, Owen Bryant; 
Nachvak, September 4, 1900, E. B. Delabarre; Rama, July-August, 
1899, A. Stecker, no. 343; Hopedale, August 4—6, 1897, J. D. Sorn- 
borger, no. 82; Indian Harbor, Hamilton Inlet, August 2, 1891, Bow- 
doin College Expedition, no. 193. NEWFOUNDLAND: dry limestone 
barrens, upper slopes and tablelands, altitude 200-300 m., Table 
Mountain, Port à Port Bay, August 16, 1910, Fernald, Wiegand & 
Kittredge, no. 4001; QUEBEC: grassy ledge, Isle Netagamiou, 
Archipelago of Petit Mécatina, Saguenay County, August 22, 1915, 
St. John; damp gravelly places, Jupiter River, Anticosti, August 
27, 1883, J. Macoun, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 17,441; cliff-shores 
of Gaspé Bay, Douglastown, August 22, 1904, Collins, Fernald & 
Pease; Bonaventure conglomerate (calcareous) sea-cliffs, Bonaven- 
ture Island, August 7 and S, 1907, Fernald & Collins, no. 1166; 
summit of Mt. Ste. Anne, Percé, August 18, 1904, Collins, Fernald & 
Pease; everywhere in dry open soil and sterile turfy places, mouth 
of Grand River, Gaspé County, August 11-15, 1904, Collins, Fernald 
& Pease; damp mossy and grassy slope, Pointe Nouvelle, Hope 
Township, July 30, 1902, Williams & Fernald; gravelly beach at 
Paspébiac Lighthouse, July 27 and 29, 1912, Williams & Fernald; 
wet red-sandstone bluffs and steep slopes between Baldé and the Baie 
des Chaleurs, Bonaventure River, August 5, 6 and 8, 1904, Collins, 
Fernald & Pease. UNcGava: Fort George, July 17, 1899, A. P. Low, 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 62,569. OnTaRIo: mouth of Albany 
River, July 25, 1904, W. Spreadborough, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 
62,508; north shore of Lake Superior, 1848, Agassiz; Lake Superior, 
1879. T. S. Roberts. Mucutcan: Isle Royale, 1849, Whitney, July 30, 
1909. W. S. Cooper, no. 76. Minnesota: Good Harbor, August 14, 
